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Hello,
the title says it all - how can it be done?
Thanks in advance!
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dave8671
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January 21st, 2010 07:00
You can not upgrade the bios though Ubuntu the software for this is a .exe which only executes in windows sorry man if you can duel boot than that is the only way
AlmaTlust
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January 22nd, 2010 01:00
no, I can't dual boot - I totally dumped Windows. So I would need a bootable USB-Stick to bring me into a DOS environment and then execute the program from there, right? Any hints how to do this?
dave8671
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January 23rd, 2010 11:00
I know that you can download a bootable dos cd image and burn it to a CD and boot into dos with that but do you still have a floppy drive? if not look into this page has some help here I think if you format the USB drive to fat dos might see it.
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm
Here is the link for the dos image below......download 6.22. You also got to make sure you can boot from the cd first this is within your bios under boot order or something like that. when you first boot up your system look for something like this " press this key to enter setup" this can be either delete, or one of the function keys like F2 etc. once this is set pop in the cd and restart.
http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/5/ms-dos-bootable-cd-images.html
I would use the burning program in Ubuntu to burn it, I used K3B in the past but that is not installed on Ubuntu by default
dave
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January 30th, 2012 01:00
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/libsmbios_dellBiosUpdate
AlmaTlust
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February 2nd, 2012 00:00
You can even do it with a gui, and much more simple than that.
You need
firmware-tools
libsmbios
firmware-addon-dell
firmware-tools-gui
and the dell firmware repository enabled in your package manager - see http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware and http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/